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drill | title |

As nouns the difference between drill and title

is that drill is drill, exercise while title is a prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification see also.

As a verb title is

to assign a title to; to entitle.

drill

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To create (a hole) by removing material with a (tool).
  • Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
  • To practice, especially in a military context.
  • They drilled daily to learn the routine exactly.
  • (ergative) To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
  • The sergeant was up by 6:00 every morning, drilling his troops.
  • * Macaulay
  • He [Frederic the Great] drilled his people, as he drilled his grenadiers.
  • To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
  • The instructor drilled into us the importance of reading the instructions.
  • To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
  • Drill deeper and you may find the underlying assumptions faulty.
  • To hit or kick with a lot of power.
  • * 2006 , Joe Coon, The Perfect Game ,
  • He did get their attention when he drilled the ball dead center into the hole for an opening birdie.
  • * 2007 , Craig Cowell, Muddy Sunday ,
  • Without compromising he drilled the ball home, leaving Dynamos' ill-fated keeper diving for fresh air.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.}}
  • (slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
  • Is this going to take long? I've got a hot date to drill the flautist at the symphony tonight.'' - Brian Griffin, ''
  • To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
  • waters drilled through a sandy stratum
    (Thomson)
  • To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
  • (obsolete) To entice or allure; to decoy; with on .
  • * Addison
  • She drilled him on to five-and-fifty, and will drop him in his old age
  • (obsolete) To cause to slip or waste away by degrees.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • This accident hath drilled away the whole summer.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
  • The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
  • An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
  • A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
  • A row of seed sown in a furrow.
  • An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise).
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”}}
  • (obsolete) A small trickling stream; a rill.
  • * Sandys
  • Springs through the pleasant meadows pour their drills .
  • Any of several molluscs, of the genus , that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
  • (Ocenebrinae)
    Derived terms
    * dental drill * dentist's drill * drill barrow * drill bow * drill harrow * drill plough, drill plow * drill sergeant

    Etymology 2

    Probably of African origin; compare mandrill.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An Old World monkey of West Africa, , similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
  • Derived terms
    * (l), (l)
    Synonyms
    * (l)

    title

    English

    (wikipedia title)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • With his former title greet Macbeth.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
  • (legal) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
  • In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
  • A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
  • The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
  • A publication.
  • A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
  • (mostly, in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
  • (bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
  • The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
  • A division of an act of Congress or Parliament.
  • (sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Man City 3-2 QPR , passage=With some City fans already leaving the stadium in tears, Edin Dzeko equalised in the second of five minutes of stoppage time before Sergio Aguero scored the goal that won the title .}}
  • * 1997 , David Kenneth Wiggins, Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America
  • Equally disadvantageous to Jackson was the fact that other than the Jacksonville Athletic Club and the National Sporting Club, virtually no organization was willing to sponsor a title fight between a black fighter and a white one.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * abstract of title * end titles * entitle * job title * long title * running title * short title * subtitle * supertitle * surtitle * title character * title track * Torrens title * working title

    Verb

    (titl)
  • To assign a title to; to entitle.